network license for autocad

[Sw-Inv Daniele]

Good morning todos...

I would point out that I am not an autocad user and I do not know about his licenses and how they act, as I am a designer using solidworks, I have a question to ask you:

my office is buying a new server with which he wants to mount the original license of autocad and would like to connect the various stations so that they are not the stations themselves to "work" but the server itself to do it x everyone.. is it possible with autocad do such a thing?

It's a bit complicated and I hope I've explained well.. thank you!:biggrin:

 

[maxopus]

mah ... everything is possible but, i don't think a server has a configuration suitable to turn a cad, especially if you want to run multiple sessions at once.
from the logical point of view the thing is easy, just install the cad on the server and then from all the clients access in remote desktop mode, but i doubt that the thing gives the decent results.

can you imagine if you connect 5 clients simultaneously which load should support the server?

 

[liber]

the new server should have the version of windows server, not a normal xp dipo, view, or seven
then should have so many licenses for virtualizations that are a cost apart from the Windows server license.
cmq someone managed to run adm 2005 as well as you requested
I don't know if you can turn the next versions, you should better inform
Unfortunately, the only link I can refer to for the policy of this forum can not insert it...... nor report the full text for respect to the owner user. . . .

 

[gil]

I don't know but maybe it is possible (including 1 license) to install autocad on all pcs of the office and then put the license key on the server. then you should tell the copies on the pcs to search for the license on the server. It is obvious that you can start autocad on one pc at a time though so you should be able to start the program where you want.
to check with an autodesk.

 

[Fulvio Romano]

Of course you can. you pay to autodesk 10 licenses and install its license on the server. the eleventh pc on the network that starts autocad will not work

 

[liber]

Of course you can. you pay to autodesk 10 licenses and install its license on the server. the eleventh pc on the network that starts autocad will not work

this is the most expensive solution of all time.
If what of my memories is confirmed, the autodesk does not distinguish between single or server installations as well as licensed costs, and therefore 10 licenses more or less arrive at 50,000 thousand euros.
the only solution if it works is the one described by me virtualization on windows server, and always if memories are true virtualization on windows server has the cost of about 100 euros, so the total cost if it succeeds is on 1000 euros, obviously you have to have a decent lan network and a good server.virtualization It's like opening more autocad sessions in one pc, obviously more open, the slower the system is, and it depends also on the works that make you render and more.

 

[PlannerRoad]

this is the most expensive solution of all time.
if what of my memories is confirmed, the autodesk does not distinguish between single installations or from servers as at licensing costs, and therefore 10 licenses more or less you get to 50,000 thousand euros...

Yes, at least until long ago it was like this... I don't know now.

...the only solution if it works is the one described by me virtualization on windows server, and always if memories are true virtualization on windows server has the cost of about 100 euros, so the total cost if it succeeds is on 1000 euros, obviously you have to have a decent lan network and a good server.virtualization It's like opening more autocad sessions in one pc, obviously more open, the slower the system is, and it depends also on the works that make you render and more.

but how does server virtualization work?
I use virtual machines on normal machines, but on servers theoretically how would it work? Is it practically like every pc had virtually access to a different server? If so every pc should still have his license, it does not escape.

 

[stefanobruno]

If so every pc should still have his license, it does not escape.

that is the only true thing.

 

[liber]

Yes, at least until long ago it was like this... I don't know now.
but how does server virtualization work?

Windows server virtualizations are licensed, i.e. with the basic software they give you 1 or 2 virtualization licenses, if you want others you have to pay the virtualization licenses that were around 100 euros each.

how it works remotely every virtualization you do es accessing from xp to the server starts an autocad session and works there.
you don’t have to have more autocad licenses since the right one is on the server
but to have more info you have to ask a user of the precluded forum
I tried to do something like that, but I bumped into it.
- virtualization licenses of windows server (always the usual excuses that have no money)
-a lot of this news didn't matter and so I would have autocad on a server and only work on it.
so I gave up

 

[maxopus]

Can I?
I think it's a senseless way of working.
How much do you need, however, many client posts for how many designers you have, why set up such architecture with such obvious computational limits?
If the server has to do the work of 10 workstations... what do I do, I buy an ibm cluster with 32 processors and 1 ram tera?

 

[cacciatorino]

you don’t have to have more autocad licenses since the right one is on the server

I think here's a mistake: you have to have so many autocad licenses as many are the contemporary open instances. Once I think we used parallel door replicators to use the same hw key for multiple stations, but you were always out of law!

If you technically find the method of making this work, I think you're still breaking the license. then it is worth putting pirated licenses and away, from the legal point of view you are in the same situation.

 

[PlannerRoad]

I think here's a mistake: you have to have so many autocad licenses as many are the contemporary open instances. Once I think we used parallel door replicators to use the same hw key for multiple stations, but you were always out of law!

If you technically find the method of making this work, I think you're still breaking the license. then it is worth putting pirated licenses and away, from the legal point of view you are in the same situation.

I think so.
I do not discuss the technical point of view, which is certainly feasible (although with all the hardware limits already expressed by maxopus).

 

[Fulvio Romano]

this is the most expensive solution of all time.
If what of my memories is confirmed, the autodesk does not distinguish between single or server installations as well as licensed costs, and therefore 10 licenses more or less arrive at 50,000 thousand euros.
the only solution if it works is the one described by me virtualization on windows server, and always if memories are true virtualization on windows server has the cost of about 100 euros, so the total cost if it succeeds is on 1000 euros, obviously you have to have a decent lan network and a good server.virtualization It's like opening more autocad sessions in one pc, obviously more open, the slower the system is, and it depends also on the works that make you render and more.

Why expensive? if I have a company with one hundred employees and autocad use more or less for 10% of the time, I buy ten licenses and if they share the employees. The eleventh that makes him leave can't.

 

[cacciatorino]

Why expensive? if I have a company with one hundred employees and autocad use more or less for 10% of the time, I buy ten licenses and if they share the employees. The eleventh that makes him leave can't.

If you are in such a situation then it is best to put floating licenses but the soft install it locally, without going mad with complicated technical solutions that you do not know if they go.

Actually, the "client data" are commonly used but for less demanding applications, office type or banking terminals, where the operator actually has only monitors and keyboards but all processing takes place on the server.

I don't know if that works, given the hardware requirements they have.